As every journalist knows, second-hand quotes can be dynamite.
Second-hand news on Obama
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Wide, wide open Holy Communion
Regular readers at this weblog are probably aware of the fact that each of my computers — at home and work — contains an email folder labeled “GetReligion guilt.” It contains religion-beat articles that I really intended to write about, but things, kept, getting, in, the, way.
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Mass confusion
Writing about Episcopalians befuddles journalists. Part of the conundrum, for anyone trying to cover one of the many property disputes and international realignments, is that the situation is so fluid that you really need a scorecard to keep track of all the players.
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Religious views on gay rites
Californians will vote next month on whether only marriages involving one man and one woman should be recognized. Proponents of the measure have argued in television advertisements that children will be taught about same-sex marriage in public schools and that they will be taught that same-sex marriage is equivalent to traditional marriage.
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Shunning 'Shine Jesus Shine'
Songwriter Graham Kendrick has managed to land in the book 50 People Who Buggered-Up Britain by Quentin Letts, a parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Mail.
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Sympathy and controversy
Remember the Episcopal priest who became a Muslim? We discussed coverage of her story here and here last year.
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Newsweek -- RIP
This post is not about Gov. Sarah Palin, even though it’s about the latest Newsweek cover story about her role in the current White House race and, should she be elected, the fall of Western Civilization.
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Praying about the economy
Many GetReligion readers have been anxious for more religion stories that deal with the economic crisis.
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Wars over sex, scripture and what? (updated)
Something very interesting is going on in the mainstream media’s coverage of the decision by the Diocese of Pittsburgh to leave the U.S. Episcopal church and align with conservative Anglicans in the Province of the Southern Cone in South America.
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